A brutal murder occurred right in the middle of the street in France, in the multicultural neighborhood of Saint-Seine-Denis in Paris, and it was all caught on video.
The video, which captured the murder on Monday shortly before 8:00 p.m., shows the 37-year-old suspect Soufiane Ourraoui, clearly a man of North African origin, stabbing a 37-year-old victim to death.
The video shows the suspect, Ourraoui, stabbing the lifeless body over and over again almost casually. He then gets up and walks away.
Ourraoui was arrested a few hundred meters at the Allée de Chartres, and officers were able to recover a knife and a machete they say were used during the murder, according to French news outlet Actu17.
Currently, it is not known why Ourraoui killed the man or what led up to the murder.
Shocking video: This shows the moment Soufiane Ourraoui stabs the lifeless body of his victim 25 times in Paris' Livry-Gargan.
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After Ourraoui is done murdering the victim, he gets up and calmly walks away.
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The suspect has been charged with murder, and once again interred in a psychiatric institution. He was already arrested for murder ten years ago after he reportedly shot the father of two children on March 11, 2015, in the upper chest in the 12th arrondissement all because the man refused to give him a cigarette outside a bar.
However, Ourraoui was never convicted for the crime or put on trial because the authorities declared him insane and put him in a mental institution. Authorities declared he was not responsible for the crime “due to mental or neuropsychological disorders that impaired his judgment or control of his actions at the time of the events.”
Ourraoui was “banned from owning a weapon for 20 years” and placed in a psychiatric clinic but later released.
On Monday, the same day as the murder, he was supposed to report for a consultation appointment at a psychological center but never showed up. Instead, he killed the victim, whose name has not been released.
Ourraoui has been placed in solitary confinement, and authorities are looking to place him in a prison hospital.